1. Bakoya woman painted in red for a ritual. | | | |
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| PortraitsBakoya Women(BaKoya Pygmies of Gabon)Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis DevinSoundscape: voices in a rainforest village, during a public ceremony (Bakoya Pygmies and Bakota of Gabon). | | | 3. Bakoya woman with painted face. | | | |
| | 4. Elderly Bakoya woman with an eye affected by cataract. | | | |
| | 5. Young Bakoya girl with painted face and an arm in a sling. | | | |
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Music anthropologist and writer, he has carried out field research in central Africa, where he lived with the Baka Pygmies and other forest peoples, whose music, rituals and survival strategies he has been studying for more than a decade. www.luisdevin.comwww.facebook.com/LuisDevin | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | HOME SECTION INDEX BACKPhoto potraits (Bakoya Pygmy people), with soundscape and descriptive notes (BaKoya Pygmies of Gabon).Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin. Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/bakoya/portraits.phpPhotos, videos and sounds are available for licensing, both for multimedia use and paper publications. For the terms and conditions, contact the author from the Contact page. The time in the tropical rainforests of the Western Congo Basin, where the BaKoya Pygmy people live, is 04:50. Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF). Go to the Other Pygmy Peoples section indexCopyright © 1998-2024 Luis Devin. All rights reserved. | | | | | | | |
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